That’s it exactly. Indeed, that’s what the Tea Party was always about: undermining black interests.

When Herman Cain — another inconveniently black man — was the overwhelming preference among Tea Party activists for the Republican presidential nomination, a historian writing in the New York Times suggested that Cain could be seen as proof the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan lives on.

You know you’ve been pounding a square peg into a round hole for too long when you find yourself insinuating that a black man from Georgia represents the KKK tradition in contemporary politics.

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I have a dream, that one day, race-hustlers will be seen for what they are — self-interested racial demagogues, who prey on the ignorance, pain, and hatred of others to satisfy what they see as their own interests, but which in reality is a complete misunderstanding of what is good and valuable in life, the brotherhood of man, that all men are created equal.

Dialog from “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967) with Sidney Poitier:Dad, you’re my father. I’m your son; I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself… as a man.

Toward the end of the presidential campaign, various liberal pundits — a great many of them born after the signing of the Civil Rights Act — thought it a brilliant and damning indictment to note that Mitt Romney ran strong in states that once constituted the Confederacy. When Barack Obama won, Jon Stewart conceded that at least Romney won “most of the Confederacy.”

You know what’s funny about that? We’ve had nine presidential elections since 1980, and Obama did better in the Confederacy in his two runs than five of the six other Democratic nominees. Obama carried three southern states in ’08 (FL, NC, VA) and two in ’12 (FL and VA). Contrast that with the other guys. Carter in 1980 lost all the South except his home state. Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, and Gore were totally shut out in the South. Only Clinton did marginally better than Obama in Dixie, winning four states both his elections. But instead of dwelling on Obama doing far better in the South than Carter or Gore–two white guys from south of the Mason-Dixon Line–the Dems and the press dwell on what Obama DIDN’T achieve in the South. No, he wouldn’t be President if only the southern states could vote. But if only southern states could vote, we’d have had a GOP chief executive elected every year since 1976.